Bottom End Gone

[NeilW]

So I have destroyed my daily runner! Volvo S40, Gave it a bit stick yesterday and the bottom end bearings have failed. Making the decision to keep driving the 5 mile home at low rpm to minimise the 'ratlling' has probably cost the engine its life.
Trawling Google today I learned my lump in the Volvo is actually a duratec lump.
Readily available for cheap.

Task this week (work permitting) replace engine.

anyone local have an engine hoist?

[Davidbolam]

Originally Posted by NeilW

So I have destroyed my daily runner! Volvo S40, Gave it a bit stick yesterday and the bottom end bearings have failed. Making the decision to keep driving the 5 mile home at low rpm to minimise the 'ratlling' has probably cost the engine its life.
Trawling Google today I learned my lump in the Volvo is actually a duratec lump.
Readily available for cheap.

Task this week (work permitting) replace engine.

anyone local have an engine hoist?

I have one you can borrow. It works fine but the arm goes down slowly.

Let me know of you want to borrow it. You can keep it for the duration of the build (only need it back early if my engine goes bang)

David

[NeilW]

That would be great, let me try and arrange something to collect it.
Cheers David

[Davidbolam]

Originally Posted by NeilW

That would be great, let me try and arrange something to collect it.
Cheers David

It would fit in a normal car with the seats down but would need lots of blankets. It all folds flat but weighs a ton

[NeilW]

Well at the moment, I have been flat on my back in the rain under the front end of the Volvo removing sump and crank to inspect bearings. Relatively easy work but a real pain in such crap conditions.
I looked for engines today and the variant I have is like rocky horse sh*t (Sod's law). Set of bearings (main and big) is £62.50 so going to take a punt and give it a go. Maybe need oversized bearings and crank re grind but will check once all out. For now a cup of tea is priority.....

Ps. I found the what I believe to be root cause... No oil! This really killed me when I removed the sump plug and very little oil came out. Later I found that my oil indicator lamp is not working!
Lesson learned here = do not rely on indicator lamps for such a simple check of a dip stick.

[flyerncle]

That engine is well known for destroying itself and unfortunately bits are not available to repair them and if the bearings are shot due to lack of oil the bores and pistons will also be marked.

I run a garage in Dunston and we repair engines,also part of Fordparts so we see plenty of them.

Probably a waste of your money on bearings if crank is marked as it will just score the new ones and usually wrecks the rods too.